Designed for the sophomore-level course in astrophysics for both astronomy and physics majors, Introduction to Modern Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology specifically addresses the needs of courses that focus on galactic and extragalactic astronomy, and cosmology. Derived from the market-leading An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, Second Edition, the text includes the latest results from relevant fields of astrophysics and advances in our theoretical understanding of astrophysical phenomena.
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Aimed at the advanced physics or astronomy undergraduate student, this is an offspring of Introduction to Modern Astrophysics, often called BOB (Big Orange Book).The one problem most often reported about BOB is its size, 1400 pages. Consequently this new, less expensive, smaller book has been produced that is smaller, more compact, and aimed at specific subject areas. In this book numerous subjects have been simply left out. These include: optics, the Solar System, and pulsars. Other areas have been greatly reduced in size: stellar evolution and radiative transfer. What's left is the core material needed for a course in Galactic Astrophysics and Cosmology. This new second edition, badly needed since the first edition is now ten years old. In these ten years, there seems to have been just about as much discovered as in the centuries before. Discoveries like the universe is not slowing down but, rather, is actually accelerating, Dark energy wasn't even imagined at that time (and isn't easy to imagine now). The book is aimed at the advanced undergraduate level after the student has had several previous physics classes and mathematics through differential equasions.
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